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- CARMAGEDDON DEMO BETA
-
- Minimum Spec
- ------------
- P90
- 8Mb RAM
- 60Mb free HD space
-
- The above spec is fairly flexible as you can play around with detail levels
- and screen sizing which gives acceptable performance on slower pentiums.
-
- Use the '+' and '-' keys to shrink and enlarge the viewable screen size
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
-
- Run DOSINST.EXE, and follow the on-screen instructions to install the
- Carmageddon Demo Beta to your hard disk.
-
- SOUND SETUP
- -----------
-
- You must run SETUP.EXE to determine what sound card resides in your machine.
-
- RUNNING THE GAME
- ----------------
-
- Run CARMDEMO.EXE to start playing the demo.
- NOTE: If the game seems at all 'glitchy' while running in a DOS box under
- Windows 95, then it might be an idea to run it directly from DOS.
-
-
-
-
- Please note that this is a timed demo, and so you only have a few minutes of
- driving time. This only happens in the demo; in the full game, you can drive
- around for as long as you like, provided that you can accumulate the time!
- The plot. Are you kidding? You want a plot?? Just go and read a good book,
- why don't ya? Drive around, hit things, run people over, taunt the cops, then
- try and outrun 'em. Knock over traffic lights, fall off very tall buildings,
- turn the other vehicles into burning wrecks, do donuts. Hey, have some fun.
- There are three ways of completing a race in Carmageddon:
- 1/ Destroy all five opponent cars by ramming them.
- 2/ Kill EVERY SINGLE pedestrian on the track - not that you've got enough
- time for that in the demo (BUY THE GAME, BUY THE GAME, BUY THE GAME).
- 3/ Go through all the Checkpoints, thus completing a lap of the track. Yawn!
- Feel free to ignore the rules and do whatever you want - it'll be fun anyway.
- Don't be afraid to veer from the race course, as you never know what you may
- find!
-
- CONTROLS
- --------
-
- The basic default controls are:
- Accelerate: Numeric Keypad 8
- Brake: Numeric Keypad 2
- Turn Left: Numeric Keypad 4
- Turn Right: Numeric Keypad 6
- Handbrake: SPACE BAR
- Repair vehicle: Backspace Key
-
- Use the credits that you've earned to repair your car in mid race!
- The damage display in the bottom right hand corner of the screen shows the
- current state of your vehicle. As various components get damaged they will
- flash green, then red, and finally turn black.
-
- Recover vehicle: Insert Key
- When you find yourself lying on your roof with no way of turning over,
- for a small price you can be recovered. Or if you fall off a building that
- you wish you hadn't, just recover to a previous safe position.
-
- Gear Down: 'Z' key
- To achieve doing donuts, hold the 'Gear Down' key (ie 'Z') while in first
- gear. Accelerate and start turning! Keep the 'Gear Down' key pressed as
- this disables traction control, and keeps the car in first gear.
-
- Enter/Exit Cockpit: 'C' key
- In external camera mode the cursor keys can be used to pan the camera around
- your car, as well as zoom in and out. Press both the left and right arrows
- to center the camera view.
-
- Enter/Exit Action Replay: 'Enter' key (on keypad)
- Action Replay mode is just like having video footage of what you've been up
- to so far. The amount of footage that you can replay depends on how much
- RAM your machine has. Once you enter Action Replay mode, you will see a
- row of icons at the bottom of the screen. If you've ever used a VCR before
- in this (or any) lifetime, then it should be pretty self explanatory.
- The various rewind/play/fastforward buttons can be activated by either using
- the mouse, or with the following keys on the keyboard:
-
- Fast forward: Numeric Keypad 6
- Frame advance: Numeric Keypad 3
- Play/pause: Numeric Keypad 5
- Frame advance backwards: Numeric Keypad 1
- Rewind: Numeric Keypad 4
- Switch between playing forwards and backwards: Numeric Keypad 0
- Go to very beginning of footage: Numeric Keypad 7
- Go to the very end of the footage: Numeric Keypad 9
- Change camera: Numeric Keypad *(star)
- * Standard camera: normal game view.
- * Panning camera: stationary camera points. TV coverage style.
- * Action camera: gives gruesome closeups of all your best moments.
-
-
- The red and green bar above the row of icons shows you what point you are at
- through the footage.
-
- Tip: To get the best performance out of your PC, shut down Windows 95
- and get yourself to a DOS prompt. Run the game from there - you
- will now have some memory to play with in Action Replay. (This is
- especially true if you are running Windows 95 on a 16Meg machine)
-
-
- You can reconfigure the controls by selecting 'Options' from the Main Menu,
- and then choosing 'Controls'. Note that if you have installed the demo to
- your hard disk then any changes you make to the controls are permanent, i.e.
- if you quit out of the game, and then run it again, you will still have the
- changes that you made.
-
- FEATURES OF THE FULL GAME
- -------------------------
-
- * A 30%+ frame rate speed increase with the incorporation of much improved
- graphics engine.
- * Over 30 different races, set in 11 fully explorable environments.
- * 30 bizarre vehicles from blade infested dragsters to supercharged APCs.
- * Over 40 wild and wacky pickups, everything from jelly suspension to pinball mode.
- * Network mode for 6 players, with 5 different multiplayer game modes.
- * Hi res (SVGA)
- * Improve your engine power, armour and offensive capabilities in the Parts
- Shop.
- * Drive other cars, including those driven by your opponents - if you can
- steal them.
-
-
-
-
- TROUBLESHOOTING
- ---------------
-
- If you are having trouble with the rendered intro then it might be an idea to
- remove the file MIX_INTR.SMK which can be found in the directory:
- \DEMODATA\32X20X8\ANIM,
- as this feature has not yet been fully tested.
-
- If you have a 8meg machine and are having problems with a lack of memory
- check to see how much expanded memory you have free. You will need at
- least 7.5 meg free. If you do not have this amount free then we recommend
- you remove the EMM386 line from your config.sys file. Also check to see if
- you are loading smartdrive. This must also be removed.
-
- If you insist on running Carmageddon in Windows95 on a 8 meg machine then
- you will need to create a shortcut on your desktop and edit the memory
- properties and change the DPMI setting from auto to 8190. If you do not
- do this then Win95 will start to use Virtual Memory and sloooooow every
- thing down.
-
- And as a last resort if at the command prompt you type carmdemo -nosound
- then this will disable all sound within the game and greatly increase
- your chances of seeing the game run.
-
- If you have an ESS Audiodrive the sound setup will not auto detect it.
- You must manually select an ESS Audiodrive from the soundcard list
-
-
- Failing this phone the SCi technical support line on:
-
- +44 (0) 1703 631826
- or email
- techsupport@sci.co.uk
-
- FURTHER INFORMATION
- -------------------
-
- Carmageddon will be available from May '97 (UK), on PC CD-ROM
- (DOS & Windows 95). PowerMac version to follow soon.
- To learn more about this product, please get in touch with SCi using one of
- the following communication protocols:
-
- Phone: +44 (0) 171 585 3308
- Website: www.sci.co.uk
-
-
-
-
- (c) 1997 Stainless Software Ltd.
- (c) 1997 SCi (Sales Curve Interactive) Ltd.
- All rights reserved. SCi is a trademark of SCi (Sales Curve Interactive) Ltd.
- SCi (Sales Curve Interactive) Ltd. is a subsiduary of SCi Entertainment Group PLC.
- E&OE. (phew!)
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-